“Poly-Wood’s main concern was to find a solution for cleaning and washing of contaminated postconsumer milk bottles, with a compact design,” Kepka explains. Poly-Wood asked Lindner to develop a combination of shredders and wash components to process milk jugs. We wanted to achieve outstanding cost-efficiency so as to make the recycling of plastics a success for us both technically and economically.”

“The key aspect here was to ensure a high level of sustainability through the particularly efficient use of water, heating and energy power, as well as low-maintenance operation, maintenance-friendly design and a high nominal throughput in long-term operation. “We had the fortune of planning our recycling plant from scratch,” Chad Rassi, process engineer at Poly-Wood, says in a news release from Lindner ReSource America. “It was cost-inefficient, there were issues with handling of recycled material, and they had limited control on the quality,” says Tomas Kepka, vice president for Lindner ReSource America, Tucker, Georgia, of Poly-Wood’s purchasing of recycled flake. Now, it’s able to operate as a recycler and as a manufacturer. Poly-Wood, Syracuse, Indiana, previously bought recycled HDPE flake from outside vendors.

Image: LindnerĪ company that manufactures outdoor furniture from recycled high-density polyethylene (HDPE) has become vertically integrated with the addition of a washing and shredding line for milk jugs. With a new system from Lindner Resource America, outdoor furniture maker Poly-Wood can shred, wash and dry the HDPE that goes into its products.

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